Montana Investigating Oil Spill Sites
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana officials said Wednesday they are investigating several sites with suspected oil left over from an Exxon Mobil pipeli...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana officials said Wednesday they are investigating several sites with suspected oil left over from an Exxon Mobil pipeli...
AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 04.06.2012
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. is working with government agencies on a plan to speed up the response to oil spills along Montana's upper ...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.25.2012
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AP | Posted 01.19.2012
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Exxon Mobil says 1,509 barrels of oil spilled into the Yellowstone River during a pipeline break in Montana last summer – an ...
AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 01.08.2012
LAUREL, Mont. — State workers on Tuesday set fire to an oil-tainted logjam on an island along the Yellowstone River, the last of dozens of debri...
AP | Posted 12.05.2011
BILLINGS, Mont. — Several landowners whose property was damaged when an ExxonMobil Corp. pipeline spilled oil into the Yellowstone River have fi...
AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 11.23.2011
BILLINGS, Mont. — A failed Exxon Mobil pipeline that spilled an estimated 42,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River was expected to resta...
AP | Posted 10.22.2011
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Exxon Mobil Pipeline Co. has told federal regulators that its oil pipeline spill into Montana's Yellowstone River will cost ab...
AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 09.21.2011
BILLINGS, Mont. — Exxon Mobil Corp. will have to bring in more people to mop up oil from a broken pipeline beneath the Yellowstone River as rece...
AP | MATTHEW BROWN and GARANCE BURKE | Posted 09.20.2011
BILLINGS, Mont. — Three weeks after a broken Exxon Mobil pipeline spilled 1,000 barrels of oil into the Yellowstone River, federal officials rem...
Posted 09.14.2011
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters/Laura Zuckerman) - An Exxon Mobil pipeline that ruptured, leaking oil into Yellowstone River, may have sometimes carried a ...
AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 09.13.2011
LAUREL, Mont. — Exxon Mobil Corp. said Wednesday that it plans to use vacuum trucks to suck any remaining oil from a failed pipeline near Laurel...
Erich Pica | Posted 09.12.2011
The oil industry is pushing the Obama administration to approve a permit for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. Exploiting the full potential of Canada's tar sands, according to one scientist, could trigger the uncontrollable over-heating of our planet
AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 09.11.2011
BILLINGS, Mont. — State environmental regulators have asked Exxon Mobil to justify its estimate for how much oil spilled into the Yellowstone Ri...
Posted 09.06.2011
Yellowstone National Park is under close watch as the park's river and lake rise toward record-breaking levels. According to The Billings Gazette, the...
AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 09.06.2011
BILLINGS, Mont. — Indoor air, cropland soils and residential wells downstream of a Yellowstone River oil spill will be tested for contamination ...
Reuters | Posted 09.05.2011
* Restoration not expected for at least two weeks * Company says spill volume likely 750 barrels HOUSTON, July 6 (Reuters/Kristen Hays) - Ex...
AP | MATTHEW BROWN and GARANCE BURKE | Posted 09.05.2011
BILLINGS, Mont. — Exxon Mobil Co. had reassured federal regulators and officials from a Montana town since December that an oil pipeline beneath...
Posted 09.04.2011
Emergency clean-up crews are working hard after an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured over the weekend, spilling more than 1,000 barrels into Montana's Yell...
AP/The Huffington Post | By MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 09.04.2011
LAUREL, Mont. (AP) -- The initial cleanup along the oil-fouled Yellowstone River could be tested Tuesday as rising waters make it harder for Exxon Mob...
Posted 09.01.2011
Matthew Brown, Associated Press LAUREL, Mont. — Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana's Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pip...
AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 05.17.2012